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Original Post Date: 2011-07-25 Time: 11:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
By Theophilus Abbah, Nuruddeen M. Abdallah And Adelanwa Bamgboye
In an exclusive interview with Sunday Trust, Adoke explained that the need to review the EFCC operations became necessary due to the excessive powers wielded by the chief executive of the anti-graft agency. The gazette entitled “Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Enforcement) Regulations, 2010 No. 61, Vol. 97,” and dated 21 December, 2010, among other things, aimed to bring the anti-corruption commission under the full supervision of the Attorney General.
Referring to the EFCC chairperson, Adoke stated that “we would not allow a situation again where the head, who is also an executive chairman, oversees her own management function. It gives room for abuse; people should look at these things. How many times has the EFCC board met? You must not concentrate powers in the hands of a single individual; there must be checks and balance. So, the EFCC cannot also oversee its own operations.”
The Attorney General added thus: “This is where the abuse, the impunities that we have seen in the system (occurs), and this is what we are trying to correct; which the regulations has taken into consideration, taking into account of the overriding supremacy of the constitution. Nobody can question the constitution.”
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Section 10 (1) of the gazette states that “Where the Commission conducts investigation in respect of a case or complaint which is serious or complex, it shall forward to the Attorney General the outcome of the investigation with its recommendation on whether there are sufficient grounds to initiate prosecution.”
Sub-section 2 (a-g) of the gazette states further that “For the purpose of these regulations a case or complaint is serious or complex if the complaint: a) has a significant international dimension; b) involves money or assets of value exceeding N50 million; requires specialised knowledge of financial, commercial, fiscal or regulatory matters such as the operation of markets, banking systems, trusts or tax regimes; d)involves allegations of fraudulent activity against numerous victims; e) involves substantial and significant loss of funds by a Ministry or Department or public body; f) is likely to be of widespread public concern; or g) involves an alleged misconduct which amounts to an economic sabotage,” relevant cases should be referred to the Office of the AGF.
He explained that he’s legally empowered to regulate the anti-graft agency. “What I expect of those critics, the majority of them intellectually dishonest, is that if they believe that that power is unjustified, the right thing a decent person must do, rather than subject the dignity of this office to question, should have been to go to the National Assembly to seek an amendment to withdraw those powers. Until those powers are withdrawn, I would exercise them and I would not abuse them.”
“What is most important is not to subject those powers to abuse. I will not abuse them, but if there is any impurity, in the operation of any agency under me, I may do away with those impurities for purposes of trial efficiency and protecting human rights so there is a dire need to balance. The entire conflicting interest, there is a very delicate balance which we must put in place and that is what I am determined to do,” the justice minister said.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri has cried out over the alleged desperation with which a top functionary in government has gone all out to frustrate her work and now smear her.
A statement by the Commission on Saturday signed by the spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, Waziri said, she had to speak out to alert the public over the latest antics of a clique which had chosen to work hand in hand with defenders of the corrupt, who are either facing trial or investigation, to frustrate the prosecution of corruption cases in court.
The statement said, “After several moves to distract the Commission and frustrate efforts to investigate and file charges against their corrupt paymasters have failed to yield their desired goal, certain known elements in the defence of the corrupt fold have come up with a different identity and have found partnership in a clique in official quarters to wage war against the EFCC and its officials especially the Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri.
“With the recent commencement of the trial of the high profile suspect they are all fighting hard to shield from prosecution, they have come out again to create a controversy that Mrs Waziri did not retire in the Nigeria Police as an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) but a Commissioner of Police (CP), with the intent that this will overshadow reports of the court trial of their paymaster.
“Specifically, a newly improvised group called Centre for Rule of Law and managed by one readily available Olasupo Ojo had in a well coordinated plot designed to embarrass and distract Mrs Waziri, written a letter dated July 15, 2011 to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice asking the AGF to investigate the last rank of the EFCC chairman while in the police force. A copy of this letter was given to select newspapers to publish with the sole aim of embarrassing the EFCC chairman. This same Ojo had as the president of CDHR taken on the EFCC and Waziri just weeks ago for no just cause.
“These agents of darkness should know that rank in law enforcement organizations is not like a chieftaincy title that anybody can decide to bear any day. It is earned. Mrs Waziri served as Commissioner of Police in charge of Special Fraud Unit between 1996 and 1999 when she was moved as AIG in charge of ‘F Department’ and later in charge of ‘E Department’ before her retirement in 2000 after spending 35 years of meritorious service. Her last identity card bore the rank of AIG while the number plate of her last staff car bore NPF 03. All these she did not give herself.
“Should these elements still plan to create another controversy that Mrs Waziri did not go to school, it is better to inform them now that apart from attending several professional courses in Nigeria and abroad, she bagged a degree in law, LLB (HONS) from the university of lagos in 1992, a BL from the Nigerian Law School in 1993, a Masters degree in Law, LLM from Lagos state university in 1996 and another Masters degree, MSC in Strategic Studies from the University of Ibadan in 1999.
“It should be noted that Nigeria is bigger than all us and for those fighting hard to use their privileged positions today to defend, shield and protect the corrupt, they should remember they are not above the law and that sooner or later, they will give account of their own activities either before man here on earth or before the Almighty in heaven.”, the statement added.
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Original date published: 24 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107250666.html?viewall=1